UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Below are the most recent active external research grants awarded to faculty in the Penn State College of Education.
- Amy Crosson, associate professor of education (literacies and English language), is principal investigator (PI) of a four-year project, “Words as Tools: Vocabulary Development for Emergent Bilinguals for Science and Beyond,” that has been awarded $1,999,863 from the Institute of Education Sciences. This study will be carried out in collaboration with middle school teachers and students in Pennsylvania and Nevada. The intervention will be designed for use in English as a second language classes to promote development of metalinguistic awareness with science vocabulary. Crosson’s co-PIs are Dianna Townsend (University of Nevada) and Pui-Wa Lei, professor of education (educational psychology) at Penn State.
- Maithreyi Gopalan, assistant professor of education and public policy, is PI of a one-year project, “Centering Civil Rights Protections to Support Equitable Student Experiences: An Agenda-setting and Research Prioritization Proposal to Advance Equity-focused Student Experiences in the United States,” that has been awarded $199,726 from New Venture Fund and Student Experience Research Network. The project team will develop an agenda to inform research, policy and practice, which centers civil rights policies and enforcement, and how they shape equitable student experiences, through three interrelated aims: (1) conference for interdisciplinary agenda setting; (2) harmonization and dissemination of shared data from the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights; and (3) analysis of historic civil rights data. Erica Frankenberg, professor of education (educational leadership and demography), is co-PI of the project. Additional contributors include Maria Lewis, associate professor of education (educational leadership); Kamaria Porter, assistant professor of education (higher education); and Sarah Asson, a doctoral candidate in educational leadership.
Information about external grant awards is provided by the College of Education Research Office. Click here for information about all active research projects in the college.